Schwabenhof Quotes & Sayings

Assassinating someone is another way of saying I care, just not in the way they'd want you to. — Dov Davidoff

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God. — Charles Spurgeon

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster. — Marcus Mumford

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed
To form the angelic butterfly, that goes
To judgment, leaving all defence behind?
Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,
Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean
As worm which never transformation knows? — Dante Alighieri

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still. — Alastair Reynolds

In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will never weary? — Herman Melville

No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because either everything is found in nature or nothing is. Euclidean geometry is a theory, and the elements of a theory may be interpreted only in terms demanded by the theory itself. Euclid's axioms are satisfied in the Euclidean plane. Nature has nothing to do with it. — David Berlinski

In other words: what we call history is the specific form in which the cycles of nature are acted out in man-made form. A quote from Goethe comes to mind as particularly illustrative: 'Colour is a law of nature in relation with the sense of sight.'[2] By analogy we might say with Spengler that culture is a law of nature in relation with human minds (the plural is an important qualification here). — Oswald Spengler